Mode of constructing chairs for sustaining and holding the rails for



f INITD STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WM. DRIPPS, OF GOATESVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA.

IvIoDE or ooNsIRUoTING CHAIRS Fon sUsTAINING AND HOLDING THE RAILS FOR RAILROADS. y

Specification of Letters Patent No. 1,5412, dated April 8, 1840.

To all whom t may concern Be it knovvn that I, WILLIAM DRIPPs, of Goatesville, in the county o-f Chester and State of Pennsylvania, have invented an I1nprovenient in the Manner of Constructing the Chairs for Sustaining and Holding the Edge Rails for Railroads; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof.

The accompanying dra-Wing gives a perspective view of my rail-road chair, embracing a portion of a rail.

A, A, is the sole, or basement, of my chair, which may be bolted down by bolts passing through the holes B, B, or fastened in any other way which may be preferred. v

C, C, is a cheek, cast solid with the sole A, A, and so formed as to receive one half of the lower part of the rail D; the other half is embraced by the separate casting E, E, which has a jog F, cast on each of its ends, Which jogs embrace the lo-Wer part of the cheek C, C, and prevent E, E, from moving laterally. Vhen E, E, is dropped into its place, and made to embrace the rail,`it is confined there by means of the Wedge plate F, F, one side of which bears against it, While the other side is supported by the cheek pieces G, G, cast solid With the sole A, A. The Wedge plate F, F, has ledges a, a,

upon its back,to guide and keep it in place, and it may have a cross ledge to receive the end of a crow-bar, When it is required to be raised. It Will be seen that by this inanner of Constructing rail-road chairs, the retive parts thereof, constructed, formed, andoperating, substantially as set forth; that is to say, I claim the combination o-f the cheek piece C, C, with the separate cheek piece, or casting, E, E, and the plate Wedge F, F, producing their combined effect in the manner described.

WILLIAM DRIPPS. Witnesses:

JAMES REEsE, JOEL S. l/VILsoN. 

